What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at Lowes?
Your Impact
The primary purpose of this role is to capture moderately complex financial activities and resolve issues in accounting records to enable accurate reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. This includes responsibility for conducting effective research, managing, tracking, reporting, and reviewing work on financial activities to ensure accounting records are correct. In addition, this role executes internal controls over financial and regulatory reporting, by working independently to apply experienced accounting judgment and knowledge of GAAP and regulatory requirements in daily activity.
What You Will Do
Executes financial activities in a timely and efficient manner, with a focus on activities that require applying practiced knowledge of moderately complex systems, business processes, and GAAP principles to unique situations
Prepares and evaluates reports to ensure accuracy of financial reporting and analysis
Performs analysis (i.e. historical, forecasting, impact, etc.) and reconciliations to support monthly, quarterly and annual closing cycles according to prescribed rates, laws, and regulations
Reviews reports, analysis and reconciliations prepared by Accountants to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting and analysis
Researches various financial activities to identify moderately complex issues, explaining findings to principal accountants, managers, and directors to determine resolution
Manages small projects/initiatives and/or participates in broader projects, working with and directing teams within a finance function to deliver the best solutions to financial issues
Maintains appropriate supporting documents, provisions, and other details for accounting transactions and entries
Communicates effectively within the team, across other functions, and with external parties to ensure alignment
Partners with team and the business in order to identify transaction issues and procedure improvement opportunities to more-effectively support the needs of the Finance organization
At times may mentor and train accountants in the development of moderately complex skills, knowledge of key principles, regulations, etc.
Works with external (regulatory and third party) and independent auditors for transactions and alignment to provide required data and information to ensure accuracy
Executes testing around financial controls to provide documentation and support for SOX compliance in respective financial area
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
4 years experience in accounting, tax, finance (public or private) or relevant experience
Demonstrated understanding of intermediate GAAP concepts and financial controls (to apply this knowledge to the design and execution of activities within the respective area)
Advanced skills in MS office programs (Excel, Word, Access)
Preferred Skills/Education
Master’s degree Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or related field
Lowe's accounting or finance experience
CPA or CPA candidate
About Lowe's
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week, with total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,700 home improvement stores, 530 branches and 130 distribution centers. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com
Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.